SharePoint Magazine

There are plenty of people trying to take the SharePoint Development approach and using Solution Packages to deploy to the farm.

We are coming near the end of this 6 part series, but don’t worry, it’s not the last you’ll hear of me! This part focuses on ‘Why develop leveraging the SharePoint Platform?’. This is really targeted at ASP.NET developers specifically, but also other web application developers from other walks of life also. Or anyone currently working with Vanilla SharePoint and wanting to dig a little deeper!

It’s been a long while since I wrote the last part and had to find myself reading through all three parts again to realize how much my SharePoint knowledge has matured since then. This is something familiar to a lot of people in the SharePoint community that are evolving at a rate of knots with the Platform.

This the third post of a six part series on Leveraging the SharePoint Platform. In the last post I explained some of the great things that can be implemented. In this post I will introduce the Governance, the People and the Approach that needs to surround SharePoint.

This the second post of a six part series on Leveraging the SharePoint Platform. In the first post I introduced at a high level the Capabilities, the Editions, the Infrastructure and the API of the SharePoint Platform. In this post I will give my own opinion on what capabilities to start with and what ones to use Open Source/Partner Solutions with or to wait for SharePoint 2009.

After reading this six part series hopefully you’ll have a clearer understanding of what the SharePoint Platform can offer to you and your organization. It will also provide some direction in using the SharePoint Platform.